The Conduct of LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1951 - 342 pages Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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... less precious or less significant ? If his god is but the enlargement by thousands of diameters of the power , the love , the knowledge he has developed through his own evolution , is that divine quality itself less real because of this ...
... less precious or less significant ? If his god is but the enlargement by thousands of diameters of the power , the love , the knowledge he has developed through his own evolution , is that divine quality itself less real because of this ...
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... less confident of its high intentions , less set on its special ends , would have produced . Or take an even better case , none the worse for being real : the child- hood of Mary Everest , that extraordinary woman who eventually be ...
... less confident of its high intentions , less set on its special ends , would have produced . Or take an even better case , none the worse for being real : the child- hood of Mary Everest , that extraordinary woman who eventually be ...
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... less decisive an exponent of active personal responsibility was Mr R. L. Humber : the author of the Humber resolution in favor of World Government , passed by many State Legislatures in America . Not content to wait for national action ...
... less decisive an exponent of active personal responsibility was Mr R. L. Humber : the author of the Humber resolution in favor of World Government , passed by many State Legislatures in America . Not content to wait for national action ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action active animal become biological type bring Buddhist capable capacity century Christian civilization concept conscious cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu human personality ical ideal impulses inner insight interpretation isolationism lack life's living man's Marxism means mechanical ment merely mind modern moral nature once one's organic original Patrick Geddes pattern perhaps philosophy physical Plato possible potentialities practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism routine Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion totalitarian Toynbee transformation universal values whole world government York